Digital generated image of bitcoin sign made out of golden bars stored on each other and starting ruining on concrete surface. As the old saying goes, the purpose of a system is what it does, not what ...

Competition for blockspace is and always will be one of the core tensions that exist between different users of the Bitcoin protocol. At the end of the day there are only two restrictions on how it ...

Researchers have introduced a novel optimization framework for Bitcoin transaction validation, successfully resolving the long-standing "redundant validation" bottleneck in the Bitcoin network.

Babylon Labs says it has built a system using BitVM3 that allows native Bitcoin to be used as trustless collateral for borrowing on Ethereum, but its trustless design raises questions. A co-founder of ...

Seventeen years after its publication, the Bitcoin white paper is still widely viewed as a novel technical achievement or the starting point for a new digital asset class. This narrow interpretation ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Becca Bratcher is an author and journalist specializing in crypto. Bitcoin is often seen as a volatile asset, a political football ...

Bitcoin’s foundational security is powering a new frontier: DeFi systems built on self-sovereignty, security and real-world financial inclusion. Decentralized finance (DeFi) will turn Bitcoin from a ...

Bitcoin is no longer just the domain of tech geeks and libertarians; it's becoming a cornerstone of the global financial system. Yes, you read that right—Bitcoin, the same digital currency that was ...

Few financial assets in history have shifted from a wildly speculative asset to a potential reserve currency in such little time. And yet, here we are, in a year where a leading presidential candidate ...

It is conceivable that by 2050 Bitcoin could be used to settle 10% of the globe’s international trade and 5% of the world’s domestic trade. This scenario would result in central banks holding 2.5% of ...

The Founder and CEO of Strike, Jack Mallers, at the 2025 Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, announced a new system of Bitcoin backed loans at Strike with one digit interest rate. Jack Mallers began his ...